| PAH | Bacterium | References |
| anthracene | Pseudomonas fluorescens 5R | [5] [6] |
| naphthalene | Comamonas testosteroni GZ42 | [7] [8] |
| naphthalene | Rhodococcus sp. NCIMB 12038, P200, P400 | [9] [10] [11] |
| fluoranthene | P. paucimobilis EPA505 (now Sphingomonas paucimobilis EPA505) | [12] [13] |
| fluoranthene | Mycobacterium vanbaalenii PYR-1 | [14] |
| phenanthrene | Alcaligenes faecalis AFK2 | [15] [16] |
| phenanthrene | Arthrobacter sp. P1-1 | [17] |
| phenanthrene | Burkholderia sp. C3 | [18] |
| phenanthrene | Comamonas testosteroni | [7] [19] |
| phenanthrene | P. fluorescens | [5] [20] |
| pyrene | M. vanbaalenii PYR-1 | [21] |